UPDATED: Police search Carmel High School after threat

6:48 PM,
Mar. 14, 2012

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Written by

Barbara Nackman and Mike Risinit
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Heavily armed police descended on Carmel High School late this afternoon in response to a call that there was a bomb in the building and there were hostages in a bathroom.

The incident proved to be a hoax.

The drama began to unfold about 4:35 p.m., when a male caller telephoned the Sheriff's Office and reported that there was a bomb in the high school, police said. The person placed another call a few minutes later, saying that three intruders were in the school and had taken two female students hostage in a third-floor girls' restroom. ...